Button



(-110 Model.) T. SNYDER.

Button.

No. 229,196. Patented June 22, 1880.

[7276725071- 4%Mm JIZZWVZQ? PETERS. PHOTD-UTNOGRAPMER, WASHINGTON u C UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THEODORE L. SNYDER, MONT CLAIR, NEW JERSEY.

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 229,196, dated June 22, 1880. Application filed April 26, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THEODORE L. SNYDER, of Mont Clair, in the county ofEssex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Button; and I do hereby declare that this specification.

This inventionisin the natureofanimprovement in buttons; and the invention consists in a button made from one piece of hard nonflexible material having a dovetailed recess with convex base, in combination with a flexible shank.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figure 1 represents a section of flexible shank secured to shell for attachment to button according to my invention; Fig. 2, a section of non-flexible button with recess for shank; Fig. 3, a plan or top view of disk for clamping shank to shell; Fig. 4, an under side view of shell; Fig. 5, a section of button with shank 2 5 secured therein, and Fig. 6 aview of rear side of same.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in the several figures.

A represents a button made from a single 0 piece of ivory,bone, pearl, iron, or other hard and stiff material. Buttons of this character, in order to attach them to garments, either have holes drilled through them for threads, or have an eye drilled in their under side, or

have a metallic shank secured to the under side. These methods of attaching the buttons are objectionable, for the reasons that the holes through the button exposing the threads on the face of it are unsightly, the eye drilled 4.0 in the under side is too brittle, and the metal shank secured to the under side of the button would readily become detached therefrom but above all these objections is the one that the flexibilityof the button upon the garment 5 was dependent solely upon the thread which attachedit thereto; and to make a button of a single piece of hard and stiff material that shall stand out from the garment to facilitate buttoning, and at the same time be flexible in its shank to some extentindependently of the threads by which the button is secured, I construct button, A, ofany of the materials before named, and form in its rear side a recess, B, having a dovetailed section and convex base, as in Figs. 2 and 5, and make a thin metal shell,. 0, with an orifice, a, centrally formed therein. Passing through this orificea in the shell 0 is a shank, D, composed of canvas or other textile fabric, which is secured to the shell O by placing a metal disk, b, upon the inner end of the shank l) and against the under side of the shell and turning the edge of the shell 0 inward and against the disk I), holding the disk in place and securely clamping the fabric of the inner end of the shank D between the edge of the disk I) and the turned edge of the shell 0. The shell is now placed within the recess B in the button, and by suitable force pressed therein, when the convex base 0 of the recess will spread the edge d of the shell into theinclined edge of the recess B, firmly looking it therein and preventing its withdrawal. In this way, since the shank D is, as before described, fixed to the shell 0, the shank is permanently secured to the button A, which may then be secured to the garment by threads with ordinary sewing, and which, when attached, will form a flexible shank greatly facilitating the use of the button. y

In the manner above described, it is evident that ivory, boue, wood, iron, glass, and other hard and inflexible buttons may be provided with flexible shanks to facilitate the operating of the buttons, and be flexible on the garment independently of the attachingthreads.

I am aware that two, three, and four part buttons, and cloth covered, have been made with flexible shanks of textile material, and these I do not claim; but,

Having thus described my invention, what Ido claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A button composed of a body of solid inflexible material, having a dovetailed recess in its under side, and provided with aflexible shank secured within said recess by means substantially as shown and described.

THEODORE L. SNYDER.

Witnesses H. L. WATTENBERG, G. M. PLYMPTON. 

